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Summary: Useful for clinicians in the field
Comment: I was impressed by the high caliber and daily usefulness of this book. I found the organization by the different levels of the tissues that were being treated innovative and practical. Each section provided lots of hands-on guides with excellent photographs, as well as details of the scientific basis for the technique. I especially like the tables the authors provide that help me quickly locate information. My colleagues and I find ourselves checking the book when we need quick info on a patient we are treating.
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Summary: Out-Based Massage
Comment: This book was one of my required text during Massage school. I found it to be a very hard read. Too much fluff & not enough stuff. The majority of my fellow classmates felt the same.
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Summary: Physical Therapy Instructor Review
Comment: As an instructor of PT Students, this is by far the best overall text for massage and soft-tissue techniques on the market. It uses Guide to PT Practice language and the impairment model. The cases demonstrate decision making, documentation, and suggest the adjunct treatments that would be indicated. This text is clear, concise and clinically relevant in today's practice environment. In addition to basic massage, it also covers trigger points, reflexology, manual lymph drainage, and other techniques, and gives appropriate emphasis to each. An excellent resource for any educational program or PT practice performing massage!
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Summary: Occupational therapy students and massage
Comment: OUTCOME-BASED MASSAGE Carla-Krystin Andrade & Paul Clifford Lippincott William's & Wilkins 2001 373pp £22.50 ISBN 0 7818 1743 4The American authors of this book provide a very thorough view of a wide range of massage approaches including superficial reflex, superficial fluidd, neuromuscular, connective tissue, passive movement and percussive techniques. The detail on treatment techniques make it more appropriate for the student physiotherapist, but the occupational therapist working in neurology or rehabilitation is likely to find the diagrams and photographs in the text helpful in informing their practice.
As an occupational therapy student, I found the focus on outcome measures and the treatment process helpful in considering my own practice. Looking at the links between impairment and outcome and the approach to goal-setting is of interest.
The chapter on the best posture for the clinician in delivering treatment helped, me not just with this kind of treatment, but also in considering my general physical use of self and my use in manual handling. There is an emphasis on the clinician preparing herself for treatment, an approach which occupational therapists, in the heat of the moment, can sometimes forget.
This is a book which I am unlikely to read cover to cover but which I will dip in to when I want to understand how to deal with physical problems. I think it will help me to interpret a client's dysfunction more effectively than I could otherwise have done. I am not sure that occupational therapists will want to go out and buy it for their course but it would be worth persuading your physiotherapist friends to buy and then borrowing it as required! One word of warning, the book seems to be designed to use as a practical reference manual and is printed on light weight paper, which makes it easy to carry around but not very robust.
